XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

Hi,

I am new to this forum and I am having trouble with the new XFCE.

I am getting tis error message when I try to add most of my pluging to the new 4.10:

Plugin "Weather Update" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it? The plugin restarted more than once in the last 60 seconds. If you press Execute the panel will try to restart the plugin otherwise it will be permanently removed from the panel.

I tried googling this error but only a handful of sites come up with only 1 about xfce. Leads me to believe it's something I did.

Is there any way to fix this?

I ave the xfce goodies installed.

Other than this it works great and has nice new features. MIME type GUI among others.

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

Please try starting them from a command line and see what error message you get when they fail to start. More than likely, they need to be recompiled against the updated xfce libraries in 4.10 (unless they already have been).

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

Ahau wrote:

Please try starting them from a command line and see what error message you get when they fail to start. More than likely, they need to be recompiled against the updated xfce libraries in 4.10 (unless they already have been).

Not sure how to do this. I entered the name of , for example, the xfce4 weather plugin package in terminal but I got ommand not found. Where do I get the actual name of the program?

EDIT: I ran panel from CLI and tried to add a plugin and here's what I got.

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin: error while loading shared libraries: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryxfce4-panel-Message: Plugin weather-7 has been automatically restarted after crash./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin: error while loading shared libraries: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: XFCE 4.10 plugins (most not working, rare error msg?)

Yeah, the apps ought to be recompiled against Xfce 4.10 (which uses libxfce4-panel-1.0.so.4 instead of ...so.3)

What distribution are you using? Whoever provided you with packages for 4.10 might have also prepared packages for the panel plugins. If not, you can take a run at compiling them yourself, or you might be able to get away with symlinking to the newer library (e.g. cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/; ln -s libxfce4panel-1.0.so.4.0.0 libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3) -- not really how it ought to be done, though.